...right from a pro-jw site in response to a post about the relative seriousness of homosexuality.
all you can do is reason from the scriptures, which you appear to have done.
homosexuality is as serious as bestiality, or adultery and fornication.
how blurred the lines around hating the sin and not the sinner really are.
I strongly disagree. WT has continued to be compassionate, merciful, understanding, tolerant towards homosexual sinners, never hate or repulsion or rejection -always compassion mercy and understanding for the sinner but not the sin. That is something that I have learned from wt which has made me a better person.
many people find it difficult to reconcile suffering and existence of god.
it seems they feel that it is god’s obligation to shield humans from ill-effects of their short-sighted acts..
people’s hobby has something to do with this kind of reasoning!
When someone has the power to help someone from immediate harm or fatal consequences it becomes a moral duty. It does not apply to God because he is the ruler of good and bad.
A father would do everything in his power to help his son even if it is against his son's will, unfortunately, one can only restrain a son for so long until he decides to insist on a harmful course for himself and also resulting in harm to others.
Ultimately God has to put a stop to it. Hopefully, people stop on their own. I have alwsys sought to understand if wickedness is actually a choice or a gene.
God can alleviate sufferings with billions of miracles but that would be like restarining someone temprarilty, BUt eventualy satan attacks again and some other suffering comes up, everything is inegrated and part of a bigger picture, the picture we are given in the Bible is resistance to God's Holy Spirit so that God's will is not being done resulting in harm and things require God's full control to end suffering as we know it. I try to reconcile suffering in my mind -very hard. Justice requires a personal answer or reason for suffering to each creature from God.
many people find it difficult to reconcile suffering and existence of god.
it seems they feel that it is god’s obligation to shield humans from ill-effects of their short-sighted acts..
people’s hobby has something to do with this kind of reasoning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.
what would stop time to exist before, during and after?
Since 2 times sort of speak can exist or seem to exist at the same time while traveling at the speed of light in our universe, it seems that the time that you are describing makes up the framework of our universe integrated with space because light must move through space.Light cannot move without space. So, time inside the ship has one form, outside the ship another form. What form does time take in a nonexistent realm outside the ship of our universe and how can it exist not part of something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.
Given: time as defined by prologos
IN the universe, a person traveling on the starship Enterprise at the speed of light would still need 8 hours of sleep and would live about 80 years, he would still need the same amount of time to read a book and to walk from one point on the ship to another location, that amount of time would pass traveling at any speed. He would have to wait a year to reach a location a light year away: That would result in 2 measurements of time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.
time
Relative to our universe, time began at the point of the "big bang."
One application of time is the measurement between 2 events. Or, a measurement of change. Imagine an illusionary clock that started to measure time at the point of the big bang but the clock moves in reverse and measures the time before the big bang occurred starting with the big bang. If no event or changes happened before the big bang, the clock would tick in the direction of negative infinity ( a mathematical concept) forever and never reach a starting point or a beginning. Like distance to measure a location with no other points in existence to measure distance from, length (or distance) is only a concept and so is time before the big bang with no other reference point to compare it to. -Fisherman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.
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here is my first letter i posted to the governing body.
i also hope that brothers on the writing committee who may be lurking on this site (and have some clout) read my letter and bring in change to this very flawed policy around confession of sins.. enjoy.
the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.
energy... void....quantum vacuum...seemingly empty space, etc...
"Get your own NOTHING!!!!"
here is my first letter i posted to the governing body.
i also hope that brothers on the writing committee who may be lurking on this site (and have some clout) read my letter and bring in change to this very flawed policy around confession of sins.. enjoy.
the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses.
WT decision and policy makers don't need your letter, they know all about it, and that is why their position stands.
JW confess their sins to the elders for many reasons. The main reason is because of their conscience, self dignity and living with oneself, they do not want live a lie and put on a facade. Being a JW is not a passive thing it involves involvement (sacred service: comments, fs, talks, privileges.association...) Imagine doing all of that with secret sins. I suppose some people can do it but it ain't easy. A lot of JW just confess, they know it will result in df or reproof - both disgraceful so little is the difference, but they know the rules apply to all including the gb and they also knew at the time they decided to sin that there was a price to pay. Some JW confess because they want help whatever that help is and they trust that the brotherhood would never betray them and are willing to pay the price: DF reproof -whatever, they tell those in authority and then it is out of their hands, the elders tell them what they need to do and in a couple of months they are back in business with full backing and support from the org. Some family members can really make it hard (harsh) on other family members if they choose when df happens. It is very expensive in a person's spiritual career to commit a gross sin repentant or not, the rules are for everybody..
And when one holds office it is disastrous and very difficult to confess because of the humiliation -they get caught sooner or later -oh the shame- but some rank are very courageous and confess -oh the shame- but you feel better about yourself and later or else when they get caught they will remember they said a prayer with a gross sin and other will remember tooo, it is easier to confess if one is a low pub.
To me it is about being right with God. He knows our weaknesses and he still gives us his Holy Spirit. BUt if a person has a poblem with porn or sex or something -he cannot serve, lay low and just try to do the best you can. IT aint about how people view you they are sinners too in some way. Everybody is got something. Be honest and true to yourself.
